Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

I'd heard rumors about Oliver Stone before we went to work on and I don't get it. To me, he's one of the most sensitive directors. He is just fascinated by why people act in the ways that they do. His movies are an excuse to explore that idea, and he wants to work with people who are as passionate about exploring it as he is. So we got along brilliantly.

I don't feel so good." Lula said. And she farted. She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long fart. "Excuse me." she said. I was horrified and impressed all at the same time. It was a record breaking fart. On my best day, I couldn't come near to farting like that.

If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

If [Eva Braun] was crying upstairs, it wouldn't be long before [Adolf] Hitler would quietly excuse himself and then make things right. What he said to her, I don't know. Whether he said the words "I'm sorry," I don't know. But he was a charmer, he knew how to stop a woman from crying.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.